Author: Kait Mauro
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I used to have a tattoo that said “All Life Is An Experiment” – it was easier to believe this when I was eighteen (Week 2)
I went through that terrible period of counting likes, followers, comparing how fast a fellow artist grew, I followed artists in secret, sometimes bitterly. I posted and waited. Like the teenage girl who posts a selfie and gets no likes, the heart sank. I always told myself: grow up!” – Luisa Fernanda Here is a […]
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Doing All The Things (Week 1)
So last week was the first week of taking my art more “seriously” and you know what? I had a really really good week. I was happy. I felt inspired & productive & I was teaching myself all the things. I planned to just work in pen. Then I started working in graphite. Then I […]
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First Attempts At Drawing With Charcoal
Lately, as I have put more & more focus on my creative practice, I have been hungry to try new mediums. This time I tried charcoal. I hope you enjoy this little video of my first attempts at charcoal drawing – I’ve been having a lot of fun with them – both the charcoal & […]
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My At Home Artist Studio Tour
I am lucky enough to have a room in our home that I can use as my artist studio. I’ve put a solid amount of effort into painting, organizing & decorating it so that it is a place that makes me feel inspired & ready to create. In my strong opinion, plants are an utter […]
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MOONGLOW (SERIES IN PROGRESS)
These are some watercolor paintings from a series called Moonglow that is currently an ongoing body of work I am creating & adding to. I’ve had a lot of fun playing with the colors in this series – they are my current favorites of the watercolors pigments I have in my studio.
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Lady Winter
I just love this video so much, especially the dancing elements. I think it’s entirely stunning. I had this song on repeat for quite some time late last year.
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MARIE-NOËLLE WURM
I have a major crush on Marie-Noelle’s style. I’ve been very lucky to have her as a watercolor instructor for a time. I sent some of these pieces to my art mentor (this was one of my assignments this week) to give him an idea of styles I like & what I want to be […]
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Five True Things
I have left the house twice in the past ten days. The anxiety has become such a beast (and not a “beautiful” one like that stupid ass book says) that I’ve been having to take my Klonopin first thing in the morning with the rest of my morning pills. I used to be able to […]
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VLOG | January 14 2022
I thought I’d try filming a little vlog since I haven’t posted much on here lately. I want to start doing it more often again – I feel better when I do. Today is the next day & I am feeling a little bit garbage (sore throat, coughing getting worse, sinus shit, chest congestion) so […]
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A Year In Books [2021]
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JAUARY A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman The Guest List by Lucy Foley The History of Love by Nicole Krauss People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
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It’s Been A While – So Here Are Some Little Updates
The blog post I was talking about in the video can be found here. For the art journal, I am using The Mad Woman’s Underclothes by Germaine Greer because a blank new book felt like it would be too intimidating & I wasn’t (in reality) going to ever actually read that book. As for the […]
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NYC Part I (Photos from San’s Phone)
San & I went on a last minute trip to NYC at the end of November – with Lena, of course. We had an utterly fabulous time despite my fears before heading out that my anxiety would ruin the whole trip. It actually behaved itself! Here are a handful of the photos he took on […]
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Flower Child
I saw a flower on a tree branch while sitting on the fire escape and for a moment I thought it was a baby’s balled fist. I notice children, pregnant women, everywhere. Not because I want a child of my own but becauseI am so afraid of, someday, my person changing his mind about not wanting […]
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An Artist Kind of Person
Winter is hard on me, sometimes even brutal. It is usually a season of hibernating in depression, wishing I hadn’t taken all of the daylight I had available a few months ago for such granted. But I’ve been feeling a strong desire to create again after Marie-Noelle Wurm shared this video with me a week […]
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The Second Love
I want to be okay, I’m not even asking for good. That was the goal for this next chapter. I wrote it down but being is painful. I know some days it will be, others less. I’ve accepted this much – and yet there are some things I cannot yet accept. I wish for a […]
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From The Plant Womb
Some new plant babies, some brought inside as the weather outside becomes colder & some of my plant ceiling mentioned in the I Turned Thirty & post. More to come…
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SPLITTING
When I was a child, I learned to think of my parents as good or bad. I learned that sometimes they were a source of nurture, comfort & love & other times I needed to separate myself from them for my own safety & well-being. I learned to split people in this way. I developed […]
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I Turned Thirty &
my best friend sent me a packages for seven days straight leading up to it. I heard my fathers voice in a box, voicemails he’d left my friend when he’d accidentally crashed my car. Never let a tinkerer friend change your brake fluid. I turned thirty & my little sister came to stay with us […]
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DEAR H // 10.18.21
Dear H, I’ve been crying about my dad more of late than I normally do. I think it’s because his birthday was on the 13th. I talked to him that day, aloud, walking around the house. It didn’t really feel like a sad conversation – I was just kind of updating him on my life […]
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African painted dogs eat a child in my hometown
I ask for directions a handful of times. “How do I get to the woods?” “Where to?” They ask, and I am not sure anymore. A four year old boy is eaten by the African Painted Dogs in my hometown zoo after falling into the enclosure. His mother lifted him onto the fence to see […]
